How Can a Webapp Assist in Formatting/Parsing JSON when Working with Pipedream?

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I made a little webapp for formatting/parsing JSON when working with Pipedream and maintaining it in a second window for referencing. I’ve found it difficult/annoying to write custom code blocks in Pipedream while referencing large example events (e.g. raw webhook output) within the Pipedream UI

I.e.
(1) you lose focus on the data export from one module when trying to code in another, and
(2) copying the “value” of an export copies it out as an unformatted string.

In case this is useful for anyone else, here it is: http://prettysafejson.xyz/ – also I wanted to make sure everything is run 100% client-side in case anyone is working with sensitive data. Just set up the domain, so apologies if the URL doesn’t work yet due to DNS propagation.

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Neat! But have you seen that you can split the tabs? Is that helpful?

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Ha, that does solve the issue of losing focus, thanks!

I ended up baking some additional helpful features into my version for my Pipedream work (Pipedream team is of course than welcome to steal, of course!). Mainly the ability to “bookmark” multiple entries in the json and:

  1. quickly scroll between them, and
  2. copy to the clipboard the paths to those elements in bulk/multiple lines of Python / Javascript / etc. with some additional customization-built in
    Was incredibly helpful for a large webhook payload I’m dealing with (from Jotform) when adding new entries the payload